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Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic CFPs for 2018 MLA GS Forum in Life Writing in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years agoCatfished: Lies Online
How do platforms that facilitate sharing life narratives open doors to fake lives? This panel explores social media and other online spaces as means for constructing counterfeit lives: romantic, political, and otherwise.250 word abstracts and brief bios by March 15.
Contact: Ricia Anne Chansky (ricia.chansky@upr.edu) and…[Read more]
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George Phillips deposited “Structures of Irony: Curiosity and Fetishism in Late Imperial London” in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis essay argues that curiosity can work as irony’s shadow dialectic in modernist responses to imperialism and metropolitan culture, and suggests that curiosity deserves further exploration as a modernist device. Attentive to the settings and visual metaphors of space and structure that abet irony’s role, this essay finds that curiosity’s…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic CFP: MLA 2018 Special Session Proposal in the discussion
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This panel examines auto/biographical narratives that challenge the myth of a homogeneous United States. What complex and nuanced aspects of American national identities are revealed…[Read more]
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Valerie Barnes Lipscomb started the topic CFP for non-guaranteed collaborative session MLA 2018 in the discussion
Age Studies on MLA Commons 9 years agoOrganization: Age Studies and The Teaching of Literature collaboration
Title of session: Approaches to Teaching Age in Literature
Submission requirements: 300-word abstract, brief CV
Deadline for submissions: 10 March 2017
Description: How and why do/should faculty incorporate age and/or aging into literature courses? How does the current academic…[Read more] -
Roger Whitson deposited ENGL 372: Nineteenth-Century Literature of the Americas and the British Empire in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years ago372 [HUM] 19th Century Literature of the British Empire and the Americas. 3 credit hours. Literary and cultural texts in English from 1800 to 1900 focusing on global British literature and literatures of the Americas.
My investment in the course.
I am concerned about our country’s inability to work against climate change, the mass i…[Read more] -
Pamela K. Gilbert replied to the topic MLA Panel 550. "Victorian" in a Comparative Field — Major Issues in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 9 years agoThanks for your thoughts on the panel session, “Victorian in a Comparative Field.” Newspaper and Periodicals Studies is of course a very well established area in Victorian Studies. One thinks of the groundbreaking work of Laurel Brake, Eileen Curran, Andrew King, and Graham Law, to name just a very few of the strong scholars who have founded and…[Read more]
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Stephanie Butler deposited The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: Locked-In Syndrome and the (Un)Ethics of Narrative as Personhood in the group
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis is a slightly revised version of the paper I gave for the Out of Narrative Bounds panel organized by the forums TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies and TC Age Studies. This panel was chosen as representative of the presidential theme, Boundary Conditions. In this paper I use Jean-Dominque Bauby’s memoir, The Diving-Bell and the…[Read more]
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Stephanie Butler deposited The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: Locked-In Syndrome and the (Un)Ethics of Narrative as Personhood in the group
TC Age Studies on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis is a slightly revised version of the paper I gave for the Out of Narrative Bounds panel organized by the forums TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies and TC Age Studies. This panel was chosen as representative of the presidential theme, Boundary Conditions. In this paper I use Jean-Dominque Bauby’s memoir, The Diving-Bell and the…[Read more]
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Stephanie Butler deposited The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: Locked-In Syndrome and the (Un)Ethics of Narrative as Personhood in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis is a slightly revised version of the paper I gave for the Out of Narrative Bounds panel organized by the forums TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies and TC Age Studies. This panel was chosen as representative of the presidential theme, Boundary Conditions. In this paper I use Jean-Dominque Bauby’s memoir, The Diving-Bell and the…[Read more]
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Katherine D. Harris started the topic MLA Panel 550. "Victorian" in a Comparative Field — Major Issues in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoNote: I’m going to post this across a few of the groups in which I participate, including Book History and Romantic/19th Century
I just attended the above session organized by this group. While the room was packed and the panel was stacked with a variety of venerable scholars doing interesting work, the panel completely ignored an important area…[Read more]
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Valerie Barnes Lipscomb started the topic Everyone welcome tonight for socializing after our session in the discussion
Age Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoWe will be gathering at City Tap House, 2 Logan Square, after the last Age Studies session at the Convention Center. This is a casual spot with drinks and a varied menu. We’ll be there around 7, assuming that we head there after the session ends at 6:30. If you’d like to get to know scholars working in Age Studies, you’re very welcome, wh…[Read more]
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Valerie Barnes Lipscomb started the topic Join us for the Age Studies events at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Age Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoMLA Sessions Relevant to Age Studies
Note: All of the sessions below relate to the Presidential Theme, Boundary Conditions
Thursday 5 January
Session 9
“Reimagining Adolescence: Where Are We Going, Where Have We Been?”
12 noon-1:15 p.m.
102B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
Session 96
“Out of Narrative Bounds: Medical Human…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic MLA GS Life Writing 2017 Social in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoSaturday, January 7, 2017 6 pm to 7:30 pm
Take some time out to enjoy the annual MLA GS Life Writing Forum social. To be held at the Marriott Philadelphia Courtyard Downtown, 21 North Juniper Street. Check back on Jan 5 for suite number. Hope to see you there!
Sponsored by a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.
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Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic MLA GS Life Writing 2017 Social in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoSaturday, January 7, 2017 6 pm to 7:30 pm
<span class=”_4n-j _3cht fsl”>Take some time out to enjoy the annual MLA GS Life Writing Forum social. To be held at the Marriott Philadelphia Courtyard Downtown, 21 North Juniper Street. Check back on Jan 5 for suite number. Hope to see you there!</span>
Sponsored by a/b: Auto/Biography…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited “I Talk More of The French”: Creole Folklore and the Federal Writers’ Project in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThis essay tackles a question that has preoccupied Francophone postcolonial studies for several decades—namely, what is believed almost unanimously to be the absence of a Francophone equivalent to the slave narrative in English. My article challenges this assumption by reconciling the legacies of slavery in both the Anglophone and Francophone “…[Read more]
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Lila Marz Harper started the topic CFP: George Eliot: New Criticism for the 21st Century–Book Collection in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for Papers
George Eliot: New Criticism for the 21<sup>st</sup> Century
We cordially invite you to submit an abstract for this volume, a collection of critical essays.
We are interested in a broad range of new interdisciplinary topics, new theoretical approaches, and innovative insights. A few possibilities might be as follows: Eliot and…[Read more]
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Subarno Chattarji deposited 'The Chameleon War': Passing Time and the Remembrance of the Vietnam War in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThe article offers an analysis of W.D. Ehrhart’s memoir Passing Time.
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Elizabeth J. Donaldson started the topic CFP: Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health (15 Jan 2017) in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoWe are seeking essay proposals for a peer-reviewed edited volume, Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health, which will be submitted to the Literary Disability Studies book series at Palgrave Macmillan (http://www.palgrave.com/us/series/14821). The volume will collect disability studies essays that focus on mental health,…[Read more]
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Miriam S. Gogol started the topic CFP — Dreiser at ALA in the discussion
Psychological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoDear Members of the Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature Group, you may be interested in the following Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in Boston, MA on May 25-28, 2017.
Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning…[Read more]
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